Company website reveals Microsoft to be stuck in the 1990s

Heaven help you if your computer runs Windows, as geeks discover parts of Microsoft's official website remain unchanged since 1998.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates holds a model of an concept mobile PC on April 25, 2005 in Seattle that he said was a futuristic

It has finally been confirmed that computer giant Microsoft is stuck in the nineties.

Parts of the Microsoft.com website remain untouched since 1998 in a testament to the black backgrounds, fluorescent text and cheesy jpegs common to the early internet.

The websites, for computer games such as Motocross Madness 2, Midtown Madness and Monster Truck Madness 2, were rediscovered by readers at software coding website Hacker News, kicking off a fiery yet inaccessible 160-comment thread about backwards compatibility and PC system requirements.

Nostalgic internet browsers have long used tools such as the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to step back in online time, but to discover such old pages on a current corporate website is unusual.

The existence of these sites on Microsoft's site is particularly ironic given Microsoft's reputation as a technology innovator and its most recent slogan: "Be What's Next".

It is unclear however whether the sites work on Internet Explorer 8.

@fekberg awesome...got it running on win 8.1 pic.twitter.com/msMKsa2dAf

— Deon Heyns (@DeonHeyns) November 5, 2013